2014: Started and played in all 46 games for
UMBC in centerfield… One of three Retrievers (Vince Corbi
– 2B; Kevin Lachance – SS) to start every game at the
same position… Selected to the America East All-Rookie
Team… Hit .264 for the season while leading the team in hits
(47)… Scored 27 runs, the second-highest total on the team,
while also stealing ten bases… Smashed three home runs as a
rookie, including an inside-the-park home run on the final weekend
of the season at Maine… Registered a 14-game hit streak from
March 23-April 13, hitting .322 (19-for-59) over that time…
The streak, along with classmate Hunter Dolshun’s 14-game
streak, matched the longest in program history since 2008…
Was named the America East Rookie of the Week on April 14…
Batted .281 in conference play, connecting for two of his home runs
against America East pitching… Collected ten multi-hit games
on the year, including a three-hit game on April 9 against Delaware
State… Named to the America East Honor Roll.

Background: Named the 2013 Connecticut State
Player of the Year…Served as team captain for New Canaan
High as a senior… Named to the Preseason All-State First
Team by ESPN HS… An All-Fairfield County
Interscholastic Conference (FCIAC) selection as a shortstop in 2011
while also earning an honorable mention by the New Haven
Register… Selected to the All-FCIAC Team as a
centerfielder as a junior… Helped lead the Rams to the Class
L State Finals for the first time in 42 years.

Personal: Son of Louis and Cathy Casali…
Has two brothers, Curt and Chase… His father played football
at Columbia while his brother, Curt, is currently in the Detroit
Tigers’ minor league system as a catcher… Undecided in
his major… Born June 19, 1995.